These are two translations of this sonnet. Say which of them you like most and learn it by heart.

Work in groups of three

Pre-reading. Answer the questions:

What person is on the portrait?

Did he write novels or plays?

Have you seen any of his plays?

Read the text and answer the questions:

Where did William Shakespeare live?

When was he born?

What were his father and mother?

Where did he study?

Who did he marry?

What children did he have?

Why did he go to London?

What plays did he write?

When and where did he die?

On the 23rd of April in 1564 a son, William, was born to John and Mary Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon (Stratford is the town and the Avon is the river which runs through the town). His mother was the daughter of a farmer. His father was a glove-maker. William went to a grammar school in Stratford and had quite a good education. There he learned to love reading.

When Shakespeare was 18, he married Ann Hathaway, a farmer’s daughter eight years older than himself. John Shakespeare was pleased that his eldest son was married. We don’t know how he earned his living during these early years, perhaps he helped his father in the family business in Henley Street. During these years his three children were born: Susannah, the eldest, then twins – a son, Hamnet, and another girl, Judith.

In 1587 Shakespeare went to work in London, leaving Anne and the children at home. We don’t know exactly why he did it. Some people say that the reason was his love of poetry and theatre.

In London Shakespeare began to act and write plays and soon became an important member of a well-known acting company. Most of his plays were performed in the new Globe Theatre built on the bank of the river Thames. In 1613 he stopped writing and went to live in Stratford where he died in 1616. The most famous plays by Shakespeare are The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth.

Post-reading.

Match the names of Shakespeare’s plays with the Russian translation:

The Comedy of Errors Как вам это понравится

Romeo and Juliet Комедия ошибок

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Макбет

The Merchant of Venice Ромео и Джульетта

1599 Julius Caesar Двенадцатая ночь

1600 As You Like It Король Лир

1600 Twelfth Night Венецианский купец

1601 Hamlet Сон в летнюю ночь

1603 All’s Well That Ends Well Отелло

1604 Othello Юлий Цезарь

1606 King Lear Гамлет

1606 Macbeth Все хорошо, что хорошо кончается

Конобеева Л.Г.

“The Royal Family”

Класс: 6

Theme: The Royal Family

Aims: communicative skills based on reading and listening

Level: intermediate

Material: presentation in Power Point;

handouts;

tape-recorder;

text-book VI (Afanasieva O.V., Mikheeva I.V.)

1. Org. mom.

Teacher: Today we’re going to speak about the monarch - the Queen of Britain.

I want you to speak as much as you can.

2. Oral speech training

Let’s recall all the words connected with her name. Answer my questions:

Teacher – Class: 1. What is she? ( – A monarch, the head of Great Britain, etc.)

2. What does she do? ( – Queen Elizabeth the II rules the country)

3. Where does she live? ( in the Buckingham Palace)

4. With whom does she live? ( with her family)

5. What royal traditions do you know?

(while oral speech training a spidergraph is used)

T: Speak about the Queen (a short story) using these questions as a plan, the questions are given in your cards. (Pupil 1, P2, P3, …)

3. Reading.

Teacher: I want you to know more facts about the Queen. Let’s read the Ex. 23 p. 132. Read this information, discuss it and be ready to speak. Try to keep to the points given in your textbooks. Work in a group of three, please. Five minutes for you to train.

Tasks:

read the exercise loudly in turn(P1, P2,…)

ask each other questions in turn using these points (P1-P2)

tell us everything you can about the Queen in her different life periods (one by one)

4. Oral speech about the royal family tree.

T: Queen Elizabeth the II is a symbol of power in Great Britain, but she is a real woman with her duties and problems. Look, please, at this family tree. It was headed by Mother Queen but she died two years ago.

We’ll do some tasks about the royal family:

Say how the members of the family are related (one by one, p. 133)

Make up questions about the members of the royal family and ask them to each other. Work in pairs, please.

P1 – P2 (training the dialogues).

Sum everything up(monologue speech).

5. Listening

I. Pre-listening: Listen to the text “The Royal Family”( the text from an additional literature)

Training the words on the blackboard ( with transcription and translation)

II. While listening: Listen to the text and do the tasks. Pay attention to the royal traditions.

Tasks:

Agree or disagree (using handouts)

Complete the sentences ( tasks are given in Power Point on the screen and in handouts)

Monologue speech ( making short stories about the royal traditions)

III. Post-listening. T – Cl: Answer the questions:

Do you think the Queen is popular with her people?

Would you like to have the Queen in Russia?

6. Conclusion

T: You see the portrait of Queen Elizabeth the II. Speak as much as you can about her. (monologue speech).

7. Home Task:

Home reading ( text about Elizaberth the I).

Agree or disagree:

1.The Queen has only one birthday in April.

2.Soldiers, called the Guards, stand in silence along a street in Whitehall.

3.Another royal ceremony, a Christian tradition, happens before Easter.